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Support Russian and Ukrainian War Resisters – Over Half A Million Ukrainian Men Fled To Escape Conscription- EU

from thefreeonline 0n 28th Nov 2023 by Andrew Korybko and thefreeonline at Nuclear-news

Zelensky’s forthcoming conscription drive might be the last straw that breaks and could result in an Uprising and/or perhaps even a Zaluzhny-led mutiny .

Ukraine Parliament Passes Law Allowing Officers to Shoot Disobedient Troops

The EU’s official statistics body Eurostat confirmed that an estimated 650,000 military-age Ukrainian men escaped to the bloc since the start of Russia’s special operation, despite Martial Law and Military Mobilisation of all male Ukrainian citizens aged 18 to 60, prohibited them from travelling abroad, unless they could provide documents that they fulfilled specified conditions for exemption.^[18][19][20.

As it runs out of ‘Cannon Fodder’ Ukraine has repeatedly demanded that the EU deport hundreds of thousands ‘Draft Dodgers’, fortunately the EU continues to refuse.

“I don’t think I can be a good soldier right now in this war,” a Ukrainian computer programmer named Volodymyr told the Times.“Look at me,” he said, in a pub in Warsaw. “I wear glasses. I am 46. I don’t look like a classic fighter, some Rambo who can fight Russian troops.” He took a sip of his beer and stared into his glass..

The BBC reported on this shortly after Zelensky promised that a new conscription drive will begin next week, and the timing of their article can thus be interpreted as a subtle signal that they expect this policy to fail. The West has been pushing Zelensky to expand the conscription age to men aged 17-70 and mobilize more women, Russian intelligence said earlier this week. Kiev has neither confirmed nor denied these claims.

Conscription in Russia

Conscription in Russia is only a 12-month draft, which is mandatory for all male citizens who are between 18 and 30 years old, with a number of exceptions.. The anti- war movement has been heavily repressed, despite brave anarchists attacking military call-up centers. Even so, Russian youth do not conform, many still refuse the draft and oppose the Russian state. There is still no martial law and many have been able to flee the country

In Russia there is no martial law and still no General Mobilization, with TOO MANY people volunteering for the military, and ‘low’ casualties due to a policy of evading frontal attacks. Putin confirmed in his December 2023 annual questions session that no new mobilisation is necessary.

Solidarity call for Russian anarchists facing up to 18 years jail – The Free

Polls claim the Putin led patriotic national revival has overwhelming support, gradually cracking down on all ‘western values’ and even including LGBTQ .

Russia is being careful about the danger of mass refusal after the extensive anti-war campaign in previous wars. There is still no general mobilisation and war policy has mainly avoided direct confrontations in favour of indirect artillery, drone and air bombing with ‘limited casualties’.. There were scandals, for example, when some conscripts were sent to the war front despite promises to the contrary, and a new online draft system is being introduced after complaints and scandals at local ‘mistakes, favoritism’, etc. It is claimed that Russia Recruited Over 100,000 Troops in 2023, ‘making increased conscription unnecessary for now’. Russia Wants to Recruit 400,000 New Contract Soldiers: Report

Support Russian Draft Dodgers – People Before Profit support this resistance to Russia’s war – just as we also oppose NATO’s massive shipments of weaponry to Ukraine.

As it turns out, Zelensky’s parliamentary ally David Arakhamia admitted just the other day that former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson convinced the Ukrainians to abandon spring 2022’s Istanbul peace process with Russia despite the two warring sides having been on the brink of a deal.

This makes the UK state broadcaster’s aforesaid signal bittersweet since their country is morally responsible at least in part for all the deaths over the past 20 months since Kiev pulled out of those peace talks.

“NATO’s Proxy War On Russia Through Ukraine Appears To Be Winding Down” for the many reasons enumerated in the preceding hyperlinked analysis, yet instead of recommencing those same talks like the West is reportedly pressuring him to do, Zelensky is hellbent on perpetuating the conflict.

“Time Magazine Shared Some ‘Politically Inconvenient’ Truths About Ukraine” last month, one of which was an unnamed senior advisor saying that he has a messianic delusion of victory, and this proves it.

Ukrainian Draft Dodgers Flood EU and Russia

Amidst his spiraling Western supported rivalry with Commander-in-Chief Valery Zaluzhny, which the New York Times made sure that everyone was aware of after publishing a surprisingly candid piece about political-military tensions in Ukraine earlier this month, it can’t be ruled out that a mutiny might materialize.

UK Police invade Kurdish Assembly in London after meeting Turkish terrorist invaders of Rojava in Syria

Last night, the Kurdish People’s Democratic Assembly in Haringey, London, was subject to nothing short of an aggressive invasion by the police. There were no warrants and no legitimate reason for the aggression and violence that they conducted themselves with against a community of civilians celebrating a cultural event. agreement..
Police invade Kurdish Assembly

This invasion by the Metropolitan Police comes only two days after UK defence minister Grant Shapps and Turkish counterpart Yaşar Güler held a meeting agreeing to “enhance” defence and security cooperation.

As a result of foreign influence on parliament, we are seeing an increase in the number of people within our communities being arrested through the liberally applied ‘Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act‘ (2000), including last week when our community was subject to another aggressive display by the police as they swarmed a small protest, outnumbering the protesters themselves and separating parents from the children, then interrogating them in front of their helpless and crying children. There is also the upcoming trial of Mark Campbell and a Kurdish asylum seeker, ‘Berîtan’, on the 17th and 18th of January, who will face trial for holding a Kurdish flag during a protest.

We must also highlight that this year is also 100 years since Kurdistan was divided by the Sykes-Picot agreement. Since that agreement, the Kurdish people have been subject to continuous attempts of ethnic cleansing, genocide, and ecocide by Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey, including the Dersim Massacre, the Anfal Genocide Campaign, the Yazidi Genocide, etc.

As a result, many civilians are forced to seek asylum in the UK and elsewhere. Yet what we are seeing is that, despite Turkey’s support for the ISIS insurgency in North and East Syria, the ethnic cleansing they have committed in Afrîn, and their heinous violations of human rights in Turkish prisons, as members of NATO, Grant Shapps and the UK government would have us believe that they are valuable allies whose “influence cannot be underestimated.”

The Kurdish People’s Democratic Assembly invites all ethnic, religious, and cultural communities and organisations across the UK to unite with us to prevent the criminalisation of communities, mainly through the misuse of the Terrorism Act. The Metropolitan Police should not be a ‘for hire’ mercenary service to do the bidding of foreign dictatorships, and UK politicians must not be able to use the means of the justice system to advance their own political agendas.

Long Live the Democratic Resistance
Biji Berxwedan

~ Kurdish People’s Democratic Assembly Britain

Elbit’s drone factory landlords targeted in UK- Boycott Israeli Arms Suppliers!

from thefreeonlinetps Nov 27th Freedom News

The Birmingham offices of property company ‘LondonMetric’ have been shut down this morning by Palestine Action, with a lock-on action to disrupt another link in Israel’s weapons supply chain. The offices’ windows have been smashed, and the building covered in blood-red paint, as activists have prevented access to the premises at 55 Colmore Row, Birmingham. The site has been shut down in opposition to LondonMetric’s partnership with Israel’s largest weapons company, Elbit Systems.

Weapons factory protesters on trial for Elbit occupation | Morning Star

LondonMetric owns the land and building at Unit F, Meridian Business Park, Meridian E, Leicester LE19 1WZ, from which Elbit operates their UAV Tactical Systems (U-TacS) drone factory. U-TacS exports millions of pounds worth of drone technologies annually to Israel, including parts for armed Hermes drones. These drones have well-documented links to war crimes and are sure to play a significant role in the ongoing genocide in Gaza, which so far has cost the lives of over 20,000 Palestinians. By leasing the Leicester U-TacS factory to Elbit, LondonMetric is in part responsible for the deadly products manufactured there and the Palestinian lives lost as a result.

LondonMetric’s Birmingham offices have previously been met with protests by the group Youth Front For Palestine, and action by Palestine Action will continue until the company end their association with Elbit. This strategy of expansive direct action, targeting companies which facilitate Elbit’s British operations, has seen Elbit’s property managers, recruiters, logistics providers and others met with resistance, calling for the cessation of their partnerships with Israel’s arms trade, as Palestine Action seeks to make the environment inhospitable for companies complicit in war crimes.

Barcelona 30/11- 6.00am – 50 Vans of Riot Cops Expected!- Our Houses are Trenches! Resistance against Bank which has 57K empties .

STOP 2nd Eviction Attempt! La Ruïna and el Kubo WILL NOT DIE

from thefreeonline on 26th Nov 2023 by La Ruïna and el Kubo at squat.net/ and anarchistnews.org/

Barcelona: Our Houses are Trenches! Mass Eviction Resistance against Bank which has 57K empties .

We will turn our houses into a battlefield, el Kubo and the Ruïna will not fall. See you on November 30 at 5:30 a.m. in Uri Caballero square, Vallcarca metro station in Barcelona. If el Kubo and La Ruïna fall, the neighborhood will burn. OKUPA Y RESISTE!

Statement made in February 2023, La Ruïna and el Kubo threatened with eviction:

Our Houses are Trenches.

Here we go, they are going to try to evict us.

In 2016, an office building was squatted for the first time in the Sant Gervasi neighbourhood and we called it El Kubo. The Kubo has been the home and place of passage of more than a hundred people in the more than 6 years that it has been in existence.

This has been the home and trench of many people. It has been an oasis of resistance in the bourgeois quarter of Barcelona for many years and this has not been easy. “Squat and resist” defines the history of the Kubo very well.

During all these years we have faced two evictions and the constant siege of extreme right-wing groups, capitalist press and political parties. And despite the hostilities we have reoccupied and resisted this house all this time.

The Kubo has been the satellite and fundamental point for the birth and resistance of what is now the CSO La Ruïna in 2019. (CSO = Occupied Social Center)

This space was abandoned by SAREB for more than 15 years. ( SAREB is a Bank set up by the State to handle ‘repossessed property’)

La Ruïna has also been home to many people for four years and a space that has tried in the most coherent way possible to stand up to gentrification and speculation in our city, in the neighbourhood with the highest per capita income in Barcelona.

The story of La Ruïna cannot be understood without El Kubo and vice versa. And this is why it is so difficult for us to separate the two houses, since for many years we have worked as families who feed off each other in the struggle for the defense of squatting and direct action, specifically, in a neighborhood that, as we have said before, has not ceased attacks since we arrived.

We believed, and still believe, that we need to have a presence and occupy spaces where we are not wanted.

Where the businessmen, the politicians, live. Where the embassies are, where the wealth is, where there is confrontation and where we have a remarkable impact.

The two properties belong to the SAREB, which currently has around 57,000 empty properties spread throughout the state, to which we point directly and tell them that we are not going to leave, that we are going to defend our homes and our social centers as if it were a trench since we are certain that they are worth fighting for.